Sliding forward on my saddle
downhill paul
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This happens quite a lot, but got a lot worse during a race last week.
I spent pretty much the whole race sat on the nose of the saddle, simply because I was sick of having to push myself back on the saddle. I remember reading somewhere that you can tell if your saddle is in the right position if you can sit up on the saddle without your hands on the bars and not fall forward. I feel myself falling forward when I try this. does this mean that my saddle isn't far forward enough? currently my knee is right over the pedal spindle, which is where I have been led to believe is the right position to be in.
I'm also a little unsure about leveling my saddle too. I have a specialized riva saddle which I usually level from front to back, which leaves the nose slightly high.
does anyone have any advice?
I spent pretty much the whole race sat on the nose of the saddle, simply because I was sick of having to push myself back on the saddle. I remember reading somewhere that you can tell if your saddle is in the right position if you can sit up on the saddle without your hands on the bars and not fall forward. I feel myself falling forward when I try this. does this mean that my saddle isn't far forward enough? currently my knee is right over the pedal spindle, which is where I have been led to believe is the right position to be in.
I'm also a little unsure about leveling my saddle too. I have a specialized riva saddle which I usually level from front to back, which leaves the nose slightly high.
does anyone have any advice?
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Best to go get a bike fit and all will be solved. Falling forward is a sign of it not set up right, could be post to high/low, seat too far forward/back... Leave it to the pro's, and you will wish you did it straight away0
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My suspicion is that your seat might be too far forward, but it could be one of a number of things.
The old rules and methods make an excellent starting point - eg. Hamley & Thomas and Greg LeMond's formulae for determining saddle height. There's a BR article on this, so I'll post it below. The one credited to LeMond in that article appears in his excellent Complete book of bicycling, and was actually the work of Cyrille Guimard, one of the great coaches of yesteryear.
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/article/h ... ght-14608/
There are a number of plumbline-based formulae for fore-aft. Provided that your frame is an appropriate size and geometry and you don't have wildly inappropriate stem and seatpost, you should be able to acheive satisfactory comfort on your bike; you don't have to pay anyone. It is OK, incidentally, to angle your seat up a little bit.0 -
KOPS is BS. If you need it farther forward then move it.English Cycles V3 | Cervelo P5 | Cervelo T4 | Trek Domane Koppenberg0
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downhill paul wrote:This happens quite a lot, but got a lot worse during a race last week.
I spent pretty much the whole race sat on the nose of the saddle, simply because I was sick of having to push myself back on the saddle. I remember reading somewhere that you can tell if your saddle is in the right position if you can sit up on the saddle without your hands on the bars and not fall forward. I feel myself falling forward when I try this. does this mean that my saddle isn't far forward enough? currently my knee is right over the pedal spindle, which is where I have been led to believe is the right position to be in.
I'm also a little unsure about leveling my saddle too. I have a specialized riva saddle which I usually level from front to back, which leaves the nose slightly high.
does anyone have any advice?
Out of curiosity what saddle have you?0
